ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES TRIED TO CONCEAL REALITY FROM SAAKASHVILI

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
26.06.2009 15:03 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian authorities tried to conceal the protest
action from visiting Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, said
Kiro Manoyan, ARFD Bureau’s Hay Dat and Political Office director.

"I do not know, why they wanted to screen the reality," he told a
news conference today. "Police’s actions were senseless, since the
citizens were not aggressive."

A number of social and political organizations planned a protest
rally in front of Armenia Mariott hotel, where Mikhail Saakashvili
was staying during his official visit to Yerevan. Yet, the police
violently broke up the rally, forcing rally participants to the side
of Northern Avenue and Tigran Mets Street.

Rally participants aimed to voice Armenian society’s demands to
Georgian President. The demands included: legal status provision
to Armenian Apostolic Church, maintaining and improving tutoring
quality in Armenian schools of Georgia, founding of Armenian-Georgian
University.

"The police could be more respectful to the residents of Yerevan,"
Mr. Manoyan said.
From: Baghdasarian